K. S. Maniam
# K. S. Maniam

Subramaniam Krishnan (1942, Bedong, Malaysia – February 19, 2020, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia), popularly known as K. S. Maniam, was a Malaysian academic and novelist.

## Biography

K. S. Maniam had been writing from his early teens. His stories have appeared in numerous journals around the world. His first novel, The Return, was published in 1981 and the second, In a Far Country, in 1993. He won the first prize for The Loved Flaw: Stories from Malaysia in The New Straits Times–McDonald short-story contest (1987) and for Haunting the Tiger: Contemporary Stories from Malaysia in The New Straits Times–Shell contest (1990). He was the inaugural recipient of the Raja Rao Award for Literature (New Delhi, September 2000), for his outstanding contribution to the literature of the South Asian diaspora. He was a lecturer (1980–85) and associate professor (1986–97) in the English Department, University of Malaya, in Kuala Lumpur. He lived with his wife, son and daughter in Subang Jaya, Malaysia, and devoted his time fully to writing.

He died on February 19, 2020, of cancer of the bile duct at the Universiti Malaya Medical Centre in Kuala Lumpur.

